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Why Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is BAD for Americans

Jun 30, 20258 minEp. 586
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After Trump's new spending bill heads toward a vote, Americans face major cuts to essential programs like Medicaid. Steve Schmidt breaks down the "big beautiful bill" and explains why it will only hurt the working people of this country.

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Speaker 1

It is Monday, June thirtieth. This is the morning.

Speaker 2

It was a momentous weekend in the United States. As one of the singularly most pernicious pieces of legislation in American history.

Speaker 1

The perversely named.

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Big Beautiful Bill slithered its way through the United States Senate, and never ever in the affairs of the United States has there ever been a piece of legislation that took

from so many to give to so few. It is the most regressive piece of legislation ever passed by an American Congress, that has saddled ordinary people, ordinary Americans like plowhorses, yoked to the billionaire class, as indentured servants, the richest people in America, individuals who have the ability to fly themselves to space, or the beneficiaries of legislation that will beggar our children four trillion dollars of debt added to thirty six trillion dollars for no purpose except.

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To take and take, and take and take. This bill will do.

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It will take healthcare from seventeen million Americans. This piece of legislation almost sold off one hundred and thirty two million acres of public land. It funds ice to the tone of forty five billion dollars.

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The United States is about.

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To have a real deal secret police for of masked thugs that is funded like an army running wild.

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From coast to coast.

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And of course, all of this obscenity was passed by the Republican Congress that worships Donald Trump. No differently the National Socialists worshiped their fearer or the Soviet polla bureau acquiesced to the whim of the General Secretary.

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President Trump promised no Medicaid cuts.

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Is the big Beautiful bill a broken promise?

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Absolutely not.

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What we're doing is cutting the waist fraud and abuse, and I want to use that word abuse out of the Medicaid system and make sure it's for the people that it was originally attended for.

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We've got to make sure that these overpayments under payments that are happening. We've seen it in our own state where people's benefits are being stolen from other states, that that stuff stops if state's obviously under the bidmant We stopped that accountability during for the SNAP program. Reinstituting it and ensuring that states have some skin in the game will ultimately help us be able to deliver these resources and services that these people so desperately need.

Speaker 3

Everyone in the House they know the peril they're in if they vote no on this thing.

Speaker 4

What do you mean the peril they're in.

Speaker 3

I think, first of all, it's good for the nation. Secondly, they know that their jobs or risk just from the President, but from the voting the American people.

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But at the end of the day, this is the biggest tax cut on working class families. If we don't pass this bill, everyone's taxes on average will go up two thousand dollars a household. And that's not fair to the regular Americans who work hard every day.

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That's what this bill is all about.

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The bottom line is that we're just we're not taking away anybody's medicaid. We're definitely not taking away anybody's medicare. What we're doing is we're going off after waste, fraud, abuse, and there's a heck of a lot of it out there. Is it about election or is it about no?

Speaker 3

It's about this right, It's great for the country. Of outline the three top points.

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When we look out across the country, the people are not cheering, The people are screaming. They are against this, and so while in Venice, Donald's plutocrats celebrate. Here at home, the hungry kid gets the knife in the back, and the person who put it there, who helped Trump close the rural hospitals, is Susan Collins and Senator Moran in Kansas, and all of these Republicans Joni Earnst in Iowa.

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They believe they're in safe seats. They believe with all.

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Of their heart and soul that they can get up every morning, do as they please, do as they want, take as they please, take as they want, lie to their constituents, and run on a campaign of saying you to the folks back home, I'm with Trump one hundred percent of the time, no matter what, because I'm afraid of him and.

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Not of my voters. That's all about to change.

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The cheers of this corrupt mag of Congress, the one hundred and nineteenth American Congress that will live in infamy as amongst the very very worst in the history of the country, if not the worst. What they have done as they are cheering is write out their suicide notes.

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They're political suicides, and they won't be cheering on election day.

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Susan Collins has every right to be concerned because Susan Collins, with an approval rate of fourteen percent, is in her last term in the United States Senate. In this awful this honest woman opposer, a phony moderate, is a scratchy voiced extremist. That's the only difference quiver in her voice from that of her male colleagues. She represents the state that Margaret Chase Smith came from, who delivered a conscience of a conservative speech.

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What a disgrace. But the die is cast.

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Democrats will have to set a plan and a course to make things right. Two corrupt establishments circling each other.

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Won't cut it anymore.

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We need visionaries, we need leaders, and we need a plan or the country's gone.

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It's as simple as that. What this bill is done is give.

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Away trillions to the richest people in the world, funded a secret police force, at tempted to sell off one hundred and thirty million acres of public lands, and has denied healthcare in the richest country in the world, the upwards of twenty million people. And this is what Trump says makes America great again.

Speaker 1

Well, the choices are followed by consequences, and in a democracy, one half of the country has the ability to poison the other half.

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And so it came to be with forty nine point five percent of the vote, and with.

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A lot of good reasons.

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People looked at the Democratic Party and they said no, and they played Russian Roulette, and there's a bullet in the chamber. What's happening is real, what's happening is frightening, and what's happening.

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Must be stopped, must be opposed.

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We must brace an American identity to oppose the Maga onslaught and the Maga identity which has swallowed for tens of millions their Americanism, their American identity. We have to fight very, very hard to reach those people and to remind them they're Americans, not cult members. Boy oh boy, do we have a lot of work to do. Bob Steve, this is the warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct

about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

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